Stratovarius, album: Visions, 1997

Paradise

Late at night I find myself again wondering and watching TV.
I can't believe what's on the screen, something that I wouldn't care to see.
Many rare species will perish soon and we'll be short on food.
Why do we have to be so selfish, we've got to change our attitude.
I know that I am no the only one that's worried,
why don't we all wake up, and realize.
Like the birds in the sky we are flying so high,
without making any kind of sacrifice.
We've got so little time to undo this crime or we'll lose our Paradise.
It seems to me that there's no sense at all, nobody cares it's always the same.
Mother nature's crying out in pain I know we're the one's to blame.


Visions

I have seen the future of mankind,
The wisdom of my prophecies you'll find.
Follow the truth and be careful, are we the last?

Hundred years has passed what have we done,
Inconceivable damage under the sun.
I think it's too late to change the man - we are the last.

The world keeps turning while people yearn for more,
Mother nature is crying for change,
The time will come when we all must pay for what we have done,
Are you prepared for that?

As we are reaching the end of the century
There's message we can send,
Be strong and bold and never lose your mind
'cause we are the last.

The world keeps turning while people yearn for more,
Mother nature is crying for change,
the time will come when we all must pay for what we have done,
Are you prepared for that?

Signs of the end I see,
Let them hear my voice in every corner of the world,
Take heed of the warnings that I give,
I have seen the Southern Cross forming in the sky.

"There shall be heard in the air the noise of weapons
and in the same year the divines shall be enemies.
They shall unjustly put down the holy laws
and by thunder and war, true believers shall die"
[Nostradamus: Century I V:43]

"For forty years the rainbow shall not appear
For forty years it shall be seen every day
The parched earth shall wax drier every day
And a great flood when it shall appear"
[Nostradamus: Century I:17]

After us the road goes on forever
Many changes lie along the path
That's the price we pay for our selfishness
We are headed for the end

"From the skies shall come the powerful kind
Before and after the Mars reigns at will
Not far from the great age of Millennium
Buried ones shall come out of their graves"
[Nostradamus: Century X:72, 74]

When the comet tears out the sky
You and I must die
After all this the time will come for the chosen ones
To rise from their graves to be free again

The beast is gone forever, there's no more pain
Instead so many things for us to attain
The sun is shining brightly after the rain
The land is green and full of life again

The sorrows wiped away now
It's time to smile
And learn from the past
Together we will try

"Twenty years of reign of the moon having past
Seven thousand years another shall hold his monarchy
When the sun shall resume his days past
Then is fulfilled and ends my prophecy"
[Nostradamus: Century I:48]

A wonder about people's ignorance for their destructive activities at the expense of nature and their consequent uncertain future.

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Paradise
Visions

"We Are The Future" by Stratovarious, Album: Dreamspace (1994)

What is wrong with a man destroying the land.
Our planet is full of waste.
Sheltering ozone layer is no more a shield,
the temperature is rising up.

Now it's time to stop this madness,
Preventing increasing sadness.
Let's put end to all this while we can.

Man against another man, how somebody can,
judge by colour of the skin.
See the signs make up your mind,
Now it's time for the change, it is not too late.

Now it's time to stop this madness,
preventing increasing sadness.
Let's put end to all this while we can.

Save us, we are the future.
Lead us into the better world,
show us the way to reality.
No more injustice or cruelty.
Save us, we are the future.
Lead us into the better world,
show us the way to reality
injustice is all gone.

Fast, fast stop this course now last,
last or we won't last,
past stop living in the past or you will die.
End, end, end of our time,
Time our precious time,
Crime, crime against mankind we have to pay.

In the course of mad destruction,
there'll be no coming back,
the nuclear end is in sight.
Soon there will be no one to fight with.
Take a look into the sky, it may be your last time.
The complete end is in sight, soon
there will be no one to fight, with me.

Save us, we are the future.
Lead us into the better world,
show us the way to reality.
No more injustice or cruelty.
Save us, we are the future.
Lead us into the better world,
show us the way to reality
injustice is all gone.

A call to mankind to realize its impacts towards environment and itself by pollution, wars, hate, racism, injustice etc.

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“Mother Gaia” by Stratovarius, album: Infinite (2000)

Time waits for no one
So they say
It goes on forever
The tears of pain
I see in your eyes
How can we change for the better?

Hate and greed`s getting stronger day by day
Injustice rules the world
Killing the lungs of the Earth
How far are we prepared to go?

I have seen the Light
It came into my life
There's no second chance
We should have learned by now
But it's not too late to change the course
There's so much more than this,
oh Mother Gaia

Can you see,
can you feel all the beauty
that we have in this world?
There's so much to see, forever
Ignorance, arrogance
Keep us from being ourselves
so we just follow our leaders – Why

A lament for the destruction of our planet and a call to take responsibility for reversing the tide. No matter the sad attitude of the song, the message is optimistic: It’s not too late to rise against our ignorance, inactiveness, and our submission to corrupted authorities.


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